Right around Oscar time, MoviePosterAddict posted 79 Years of Best Picture Winners in Posters. As I scanned through the gallery, I noticed something unexpected: many of the posters of movies adapted from novels actually featured a book in their layout, something you’d never see today. Here are a few examples:
Rebecca, 1940.
How Green Was My Valley, 1941
The Lost Weekend, 1945
Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947
All the King’s Men, 1949. No picture of a book, but “Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel” is prominently featured.
From Here to Eternity, 1953.
And that’s all, there ain’t no more.
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